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Greg Linden summarizes and discusses a Yahoo Research paper to be presented at the upcoming NIPS 2008 conference called "Online Models for Content Optimization". read more »
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Expert Frank van Harmelen delivers a lecture on why the semantic web breaks. He covers semantic web 1 & 2, and all the problems - I provide a short summary to the 58min talk. read more »
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For the happy coders amongst you - some resources to get you up and running, building Twitter bots to gather all sorts of information. read more »
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Abraham Bernstein talks about how the semantic web works well for machines, but how on earth do we make it accessible to the general public? read more »
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In this issue of the ACM queue Anna Patterson from Cuil writes about how hard it is to build even a basic search engine that performs. read more »
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Your weekly installment of TGIF fun - this week, the geek xmas list, geeky facts and the geek test. read more »
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I've been asked often why I use Blogger and how Wordpress is a lot better etc...Honestly, it's not all about what platform you use, it's about how you use your blog, "Science for SEO" is proof of that. read more »
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A playful theory on how Google is to become a full on backend system. What do you think? read more »
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There is a mass shortage of women in computer science. Women have been instrumental in the development of computing. Where have they all gone?! read more »
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10 free NLP tools that I've used for a while and that you might find a good use for yourself :) read more »
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Mark Davis made the "Corpus of contemporary American English" interactive for you. Search for a keyword and get the matching tokens, POS, ratio and senses available. You can also compare words, sort by relevance or frequency. An old NLPer tool yo read more »
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You usual dose of TGIF, this week: geek comics, weekly weird geek facts, a Microsoft word bug to try out and a cool piece of footage to make you smile and end the week in style. read more »
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Google presented a paper at a conference about how their UX team operates and how they ensure that each product receives the best in usability care. Data collection is super important... read more »
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1-800-GOOG-411 was all about collecting data to make voice search possible. I gave it a quick test and read a lot about how it might work, so here's a summary of it all...get acquainted with Speex. read more »
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Some guys over at MIT, NE and Stanford looked at marketing over social networks and used the "influence-and-exploit" strategy. They came up with a method which may help you. Short version on the blog, long version available too. read more »
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There's a lot of talk about the semantic web, but not so much about the ubiquitous web. It is different to the traditional browser. It strives to provide you with the right thing at the right time in the right way. A knowledge and communication mod read more »
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Justin James (working arrangement with Micro)talks about the DOCTYPE not mattering, the q tag, validator performance, and browser compliance. read more »
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Twitter is useful to me, and I use it every day to share and gather info on my favorite topics. I wish there were a few more features though. What would you like for xmas from twitter? read more »
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Recommendations for SEO pros pulled from FreeTechBooks - available online and freely downloadable. IR, intro to computer sci and IR, fun with Google and so on. read more »
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Coverage of the "World information institute conference" - Looking for a more democratic web instead of following "Google law",the "Google trap",storage and quality for natural search, and lots of other natural search talks covered. read more »
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Tech talk from the Google YouTube channel about limitations in current search engines and creative ways to over-come them, check here for a short synopsis. read more »
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A simple low-down of what some of the options are for dealing with Sphinn spam. I've looked at topics ranging from moderation, to relevance rank and begging. read more »
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This patent was published on the 11th Nov. It's all about detecting your preferred languages to serve you up results in multiple languages at the same time. Quick run down of what's in it at SFS. read more »
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Agna is a freely available social networking analysis tool. You can visualise networks and analyse them also for patterns and links and much more. It provides important detail for social media experts. read more »
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The ranking methods that work for the web don't work for blogs (i.e.PageRank doesn't work, neither does HITS). How do we go about rankings blogs and finding authority blogs? read more »
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